A Different Man (Aaron Schimberg, 2024) • Page 2

it’s so good

 

top five this year easy

 

Holy cow I loved this

 

Thought this was fantastic. Sebastian Stan and Adam Pearson were amazing. I’m pretty enamored with the score as well

 

@imthegrimace only giving this three stars on Letterboxd. What the hell man

 

cold

 

I didn’t dislike it but everything felt very rushed and not earned if that makes sense. We see him post transformation for 2 seconds before he’s trying out for the play and trying to be his old self again.

 

I thought he was testing to see if he could get Ingrid’s attention

 

agreed

 

Yeah that’s why he initially tries out but then is quickly back to being/acting like himself prior to transformation. Just a ton stuffed into a 2 hour movie that didn’t totally work for me. I’m glad others loved it though.

 

i mean … it seems pretty obvious the takeaway from the movie is getting what you want won’t fix you/make you better? seems like the whole point is that he wouldn’t change from who he is because the transformation

 

Yeah but I would have liked to see him grapple with that more post transformation. Give us 10-15 minutes of him at his new job etc before the play stuff and then cut the final 10-15 minutes which didn’t work for me at all.

 

the restaurant scene might be my favorite scene of the year

 

I think you just wanna join that cult

 

wouldn’t

 

no one needs to be subjected to seeing me naked

 

It's almost Old Testament punishment. You don't see a lot of movies willing to drag their protagonists through it like that. It's what makes it so funny.

 

The full-body cast while he's just seething in their house feels very Looney Tunes (complimentary).

I want to watch this again.

 

his mannerisms in that stretch of the movie are hilarious

 

This movie rules

 

hell yeah it does